Word: prudishly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...currently serializing At the Last Frontier by Valentin Pikul. The book is a canny mix of fact and rumor about the monk, whose skill in doctoring the Tsarina's sick son gained him inordinate influence over the royal family in the final decade of the Russian empire. By prudish Soviet standards, Pikul's empurpled prose is downright lurid. In one key scene, for example, Rasputin sneaks up to the Tsarina as she prays for her hemophiliac son. Out of the shadows steps the "bony peasant, his face framed by long hair parted in the center and glistening with...
Elise Paschen is delightfully unfaithful as Celimene, Alceste's amour. When she matches couched insults with the prudish Arsinoe, admirably portrayed by Felicity Stafford, The Misanthrope is both funny and a serious commentary on the double-edged talk of an insincere society...
...They call themselves holy but holiness costs and so far as I can see they pay nothing." She was proper but not prudish. "All these moralists who condemn Lolita give me the creeps," she noted. "I go by the notion that a comic novel has its own criteria...
...much since high school, where her yearbook inscription read: "What is the one thing Sally would want on a desert island? A husband." Gradually, awakened by her experience in the veteran's hospital and by the feminist roommate she moves in with, a new consciousness emerges. She sheds her prudish dresses and skirt outfits for jeans and imported shirts, becomes increasingly anti-war, and eventually falls in love with Voight. After this happens, their ideal love affair becomes the central focus of the movie. But the point is that the way you love is the way you live...
City Councilor Lawrence S. DiCara '71, widely acknowledged to be the most progressive of the councilors (somewhat like being called the most prudish woman in a whorehouse), said last month the city council is "hostile" towards the finance commission. Councilor John J. Kerrigan, a self-proclaimed racist, chairs the city council's Ways and Means Committee and wants to reduce the finance commission's budget to the legally mandated $85,000 minimum. The seven remaining dated $85,000 minimum. The seven remaining councilors have not taken any actions to aid the friendless finance commission. City Council President Michael Connolly told...